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Colour Me Pop
Colour Me Pop was a British music TV programme broadcast on BBC2 from 1968–1969. It was a spin-off from the BBC 2 arts magazine show Late Night Line-Up. Designed to celebrate the new introduction of colour to British television,[1] it was directed by Steve Turner, and showcased half-hour sets by pop and rock groups of the period. The programme was a pioneering precursor to the better-remembered BBC music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test (1971–87). Unlike its successor, most of the editions of Colour Me Pop are missing, due to the BBC's archival policy of the time.[2] Complete list of performances14 June 1968 Manfred Mann In addition, 2 compilation programmes were compiled and broadcast over the 1969/70 festive season: 27 December 1969: excerpts from the Bonzo Dog Band, Caravan, Copperfield, Harmony Grass, The Nice, The Peddlers, Gene Pitney, Spooky Tooth and Trapeze editions There is a common misconception that The Mothers of Invention appeared on the show. This is because a MOI studio session (consisting of 'Oh in the Sky' and 'King Kong') recorded for Colour Me Pop's parent programme Late-Night Line-Up on 23 October 1968 was incorrectly billed as being from Colour Me Pop when an excerpt was reused in the 1991 BBC 2 series Sounds of the Sixties. Since it was never originally broadcast as a Colour Me Pop and used a different director and studio, this performance cannot be considered part of the series. Surviving materialVisuals Other material that is known to exist outside the BBC includes: b/w tele-recordings of the complete Hollies and Nice editions, an additional film insert from the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band show of Vivian Stanshall's band introductions', and silent film inserts from the Orange Bicycle edition are held by the Kaleidoscope archive. There also exists a b/w French TV-shot promo film for The Hollies "Listen to Me" that was filmed during their Colour Me Pop recording. A 1969 Dutch documentary on Golden Earring features a performance of 'It's Alright, But I Admit It Could Be Better' from their unbroadcast CMP show. 18 frames of film (totalling under a seconds continuous footage) from the Barbara Ruskin edition is preserved in a contemporary piece of sheet music, Off-monitor screenshots exist from the Honeybus (8 images) Sons and Lovers (2 images) and the Giles Giles and Fripp, Toast and Elastic Band (1 image each) editions. Audio Availability
Most of the Small Faces edition was commercially released as part of the 'All Or Nothing 1965–1968' DVD in 2009, and in 2018 the entire show was issued on the 50th anniversary edition of Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake. The Moody Blues edition was released as part of their 'Timeless Flight' box set in 2013, and again on the 50th anniversary edition of In Search of the Lost Chord in 2018. The Move's edition was included on their 'Magnetic Waves of Sound' CD/DVD release in 2017. The off-air audio of The Kinks edition was included on the 'Kinks at the BBC' box set in 2012. This was followed by the pre-broadcast audio of the show as prepared by Ray Davies (featuring two additional songs, 'Lazy Old Sun' and 'Monica' that did not make the final broadcast) being featured on the 50th anniversary The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society box set in 2018. The audio of two songs from the Love Affair edition were issued on their 3CD collection 'Time Hasn't Changed Us' in 2015. The audio of the Family edition was issued on the 'Family at the BBC' limited edition box in 2018. The audio used for the Giles Giles and Fripp edition (not an off air but prerecordings produced by Peter Giles to be played back during broadcast) was included on 'The Brondesbury Tapes' CD release in 2001.The audio of Trapeze's 3 song live set on Colour me Pop was included on the 2020 Cherry Red reissue of their debut album. Videos identified as being taken from the programme can be seen on the YouTube website, including recordings of The Bonzo Dog Band, The Nice, The Moody Blues, The Hollies, The Chambers Brothers, The Move, and The Small Faces.[8] References
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